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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






2. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






3. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






4. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






5. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






6. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






7. A four line stanza in a poem.






8. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






9. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






10. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






11. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






12. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






13. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






14. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






15. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






16. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






17. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






18. A short saying with a moral.






19. The person who 'tells' the story.






20. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






21. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






22. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






23. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






24. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






25. The organizational form of a literary work.






26. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






27. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






28. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






29. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






30. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






31. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






32. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






33. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






34. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






35. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






36. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






37. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






38. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






39. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






40. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






41. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






42. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






43. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






44. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






45. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






46. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






47. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






48. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






49. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






50. The conversation of characters in a literary work.